David Weinberg, director of the CIC’s Israel Office, recommends “President Obama and the Middle East Challenge,” by Jonathan Rynhold of the BESA Center, a non-partisan and independent institute, affiliated with the political science department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
The article’s executive summary reads: “Barack Obama’s general outlook on foreign policy is the opposite of George W. Bush’s approach. He has enunciated a clear program for Middle East policy based on multilateralism and negotiations to deal with Iran, Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In reality he will have to make tough choices about what to prioritize and do when other countries reject the US approach. The most important challenge he faces concerns Iran, rather than the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
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